Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c22a1d2c5b4da8ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-09 23:01:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 28e257f3d2f0ce8f0c22affd0e25a3b7 SHA-1: cdc0d054d697842565d300ecbade4d2838930670 SHA-256: c22a1d2c5b4da8adeca9991880ad0c8684f06b6ad69f319764efe8be5bf22093
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic suggest the primary goal is to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://dakhoanhanai.com/images/files/53281029253.pdf
    • http://aci-immobilier-douai.fr/userfiles/files/54884157751.pdf
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136fc5b92895---21827828877.pdf
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/22412511038.pdf
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ahmebslsfed3vmv414vtp723ov/45787525437.pdf
    • https://fizjolech.pl/userfiles/file/vapixolewakenuvuwodes.pdf
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/36832381639.pdf
    • https://leuphuotcamap.com/uploads/image/files/tofinajip.pdf
    • http://greenbiotech.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/puzokukodoxat.pdf
    • https://gmnavarra.es/ckeditor/files/66130433192.pdf
    • https://episcopiaoradiei.ro/files/fajofuzuzimoje.pdf
    • http://maynenkhiinverter.com/media/ftp/file/58080701790.pdf
    • http://vipacademy.org/userfiles/file/64229676977.pdf
    • http://mackielaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gofagesivo.pdf
    • http://tzsunup.com/upload/32537095734.pdf
    • http://szyqjsj.com/UploadFile/file/20210909171537668.pdf
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/33925186418.pdf
    • http://anneadamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/forewajefavuwodukobabu.pdf
    • http://5lovestartw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/pasonumatefixotuveb.pdf
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fa89b6a5e3---kuwekawuf.pdf
    • http://apnschool.in/singhania/downloads/file/fajabavojogojatejaz.pdf
    • http://unternehmensberatung-hegenbarth.de/userfiles/file/34124270152.pdf
    • http://dgkno.cn/upload/58571360939.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+tonos+de+iphone+gratis+para+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dad7.bin
57f96db88ee246d8beeba1642fb5acff5c9094731856f791f239b63943beeff0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAD7 10748 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f351.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF351 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010b63.bin
f2ecbc722f5b30b6bc5796022b80e26fa1aecd2f6dfba8eb47cb0ab0cbe69eea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B63 19220 bytes